Creative Techniques for Cover Illustration

Overview

“Time to start painting! Here I’ll show you the way I approach creating a final piece of art with mixed media: ink, watercolour, and acrylic paints. I'll start by painting with watercolour in the areas where I want to retain a certain brightness from the white paper. When I feel that I have everything covered, I will lay out my acrylic palette.”

In this video lesson Julia Breckenreid addresses the topic: The Painting Process 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Techniques for Cover Illustration. Learn to draw, paint, and retouch original illustrations filled with visual metaphors, from the initial sketch to the finished edit.

Partial transcription of the video

“ The Painting Process In this lesson, I'll start showing you my painting process. I'd like to begin by showing you some testing that I like to do when I'm working with paints. It serves as something pretty to have on display in my studio as well as a great guide for what the paint will do on any paper that I like to work on. Doing these tests allows me to see the strength of the paint that I'd like to mix, and this particular paint is a bit different. It is watercolor paint and it comes in a book. It's called Nicholson's Peerless Watercolors. These aren't the only watercolors that I use, b...”

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Course summary for: Creative Techniques for Cover Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (35)
• 648 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 15m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Painting, Traditional illustration